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Ithake
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description: Dedication to Athena and Hera on a stele at Polis
catalogue number: 735
LSAG reference: 234.03
date: c. 550 ?
object type: Stele
region: NW
sub-region: Ionian Islands
archaeological context: Polis
    publications:
Roehl, H., IGA no. 336
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 310
IG vol. ix.1 no. 653
SGDI no. 1669
Vollgraff, BCH vol. 29 (1905) pp. 165 f
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 118 no. 4
Lejeune, REA vol. 47 (1945) pp. 104 no. 3
SEG vol. 27 no. 180

    archival material:
    local script: Ithake
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: uncertain  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:47

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α β γ δ ε Digamma ζ α η Heta θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π M Koppa ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω Sampi punct.

    transcription:

[- - - τας Α]θανας {τας}
τας Πολ̣[ιαδ-
ος] κα[ι τ]α̣ς hε̅ρ-
ας̣ τας̣ Τελ[ει-
ας] τοι [π]ερι̣π̣ολ-
[ο]ι (?) με ε[πο]ι̣ε̅σ[αν · ·
c. 7]πι[- - -].

    translation:

not available